Ace is the Place!

So..........
We meet here again.
Did you score a free quart of paint from Ace Hardware over the weekend?!?!?
This lucky lady did.  Woot! 
Actually I scored two.  The gentleman behind the counter also gave my husband one (regardless of the "one per household" rule!!
Double "Woot Woot"!!!

If you did make it to Ace, you would've found out that its flat enamel only!!  Not so ideal for a front door makeover like I was hopein. Shucks!! BUT.........

I'm excited to make something over anyway!  This something happens to be my new desk I picked up at St. Vincent De Paul (for 25 bucks!!!) right before we made it to Ace actually. Well the desk isn't "new new" per say but it is new to me and will fit in perfectly in my office that I like to call my "diva headquarters".  I can finally blog like a real blogger........you know in an actual office and from an actual desk, and not from my couch while watchin episodes of The River or Alcatraz!!  Oh heck who am I kiddin I'll probably only use the desk to pay our bills.

It really needs a bit of TLC first........like some wood filler and a new coat of PAINT!!  You know kinda like them Desperate Housewives do it. A little bit of botox to fill in the cracks or in this case a bit of wood filler.......and a spray tan to make em look orange bronzy or in this case a new (FREE) coat of paint to make the desk look pretty again!!



We have three bedrooms on the first floor, one being our master bedroom, one being the guest bedroom, and the last one being my office/dressing room/makeup room.  One of the first things we did the very first week we moved into our house is paint all of the bedrooms.  Great right?!?!  No not so great!  That meant I had to pick out all of the paint colors in one weekend.  I'm indecisive and also want perfection.  Do you know how hard it is to narrow down a paint color when you don't even have a color scheme in mind?!?!  Ya I was in panic mode but eventually decided we would paint one room a "boy" color and the other room a "girl" color that way we wouldn't have to paint the rooms again!  The room I took over as the "diva headquarters" will ultimately be a baby girls nursery (that is we ever have a little girl).  I wanted it to be frilly and girly without actually painting everything in the room PINK if you know what I mean!  So I went with a light aqua color. 

The swatch on the right is the wall color, matched to Benjamin Moores Innocence. What a perfect name for a future nursery, no?!?!  The color I chose for the desk is color matched to Benjamin Moores, Silver Streak. 

I know what you are thinking........."but Jo the two colors next to each other aren't very girly".  You just have to trust me on this one......I think it will scream "GIRL" (or for now "DIVA") when I'm done with the entire room. Well I sure hope so.  Otherwise I will be doing the screamin!!  You see I have a vision.......but sometimes my "vision" back fires and instead of looking hot -  it looks like a hot mess.  HA! Lets just hope I know what I'm doing and it works out for me. Crossing my fingers (and toesies!)! 

What color did you choose?!?!  What item will you be covering with free paint?!?!  Anyone have to choose paint colors in a hot minute?!?  Ya not so much fun.  You should have seen me at Ace.......I think we were there for a half hour.  2hotty kept tellin me, "hey if you don't pick a color, they'll run out of cans and if that happens don't cry to me"!! Isn't he so sweet!  Bless his little heart. Ha!

xoxo JoAnna D.